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The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.
The new funding nearly triples what the Vancouver, Wash.-based semiconductor startup had raised when it came out of stealth last year. Powerlattice says its tech can cut AI chip energy use by more than half. Read More
Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data centers.
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
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This week featured a robust lineup of large rounds, led by manufacturing startup Re:Build, which closed on $2.1 billion, and predictions marketplace Kalshi, which picked up another $1 billion.
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Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn’t managed to reverse the funding slowdown. We share what a review of…
Two former Amazon executives who helped build Discovery’s direct-to-consumer operation in Bellevue, Wash., are stepping down; an Amazon leader is returning to Microsoft to join its CoreAI effort; VertueLab names ED; and more personnel moves. Read More
Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.
Richard Wang’s self-funded program pairs AI coding tools with hands-on engineering help. It takes no equity, and participants can keep their day jobs. Read More
Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents.
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Group14 has raised $169 million and plans to build a battery materials factory in Spain as it expands beyond Washington and South Korea. Meanwhile, the Seattle-area startup now expects to bring the first module of its delayed Moses Lake factory online in…
Crunchbase data shows that so far this year, investors have poured around $48 billion into financings around the Series B stage, the highest tally in years. Yet round counts are below year-ago levels and are on track for a multiyear low. We take a look at…
AI megarounds are masking a shrinking Series A market, leaving seed founders facing higher revenue expectations and longer timelines despite larger seed checks. To improve their chances, MGV's Marc Schröder says, founders should size their seed funding…
The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.
Seattle startup Ganaz, which makes payroll and HR software for agricultural employers and workers, has been acquired by Toronto-based Beacon Holdings. Co-founder and CEO Hannah Freeman is stepping away, and the deal’s financial terms weren’t disclosed. Read…
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until…
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until…
Hilco Global is marketing 17 patents and applications from the defunct Seattle homebrew startup on behalf of Pico Craft Group, which bought the assets in 2024. Read More
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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Numeracle, a McLean, Virginia-based company that verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone numbers they use to contact customers, has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls are incorrectly labeled as spam or…
Revenue growth does not guarantee a larger exit, as declining valuation multiples can outweigh operating gains and reduce enterprise value. Guest author Itay Sagie suggests that founders and boards should track valuation alongside financial performance,…
After living as a monk while managing Graves’ disease, a former Facebook engineer left Big Tech to pursue meaningful work, eventually founding government software startup FSH Technologies which aims to improve processes such as school food services and…
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.
Xbox COO Helen Chiang has suddenly left Microsoft after 21 years and just months in the new role; SeekOut has shaken up its leadership; Fred Hutch has named a vice president and other personnel moves. Read More
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
Getting to lung rehab can be difficult for older adults with COPD, so Seattle startup Kivo Health brings the sessions into their homes over video. It just raised $10 million to expand the service. Read More
The Seattle startup says bookings grew nearly fivefold over the past year as employers look for ways to rein in rising health care costs. Read More
Seattle startup Emerald Nuclear is leading a Norwegian project backed by a $2.1 million award to develop nuclear power for ships and offshore uses. The team is starting with a non-nuclear prototype, with its first commercial deployment targeted for 2031 and…
Venture funding to robotics startups has soared in 2026, with the bulk of investment going to companies based in China and the U.S., Crunchbase data shows. All told, global venture funding to robotics startups totaled $9.9 billion in Q3, more than double the…
Scaling AI agents requires treating them like employees in regulated roles, with written rules, clearly defined responsibilities and a named human manager accountable for their performance. Guest author Rick Folgmann, COO at Get Covered, tells companies they…
The conditional financing would help the Kent, Wash.-based startup build infrastructure for Nova Block 2, a bigger rocket due to debut in 2029. Read More
Entire, the startup led by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, launched a platform for hosting and reviewing code that it's pitching as an alternative to GitHub. The company says its Trails feature, which replaces the pull request, uses AI agents to score each…
Seattle startup Strella raised $4.25 million to expand its technology that tracks how fruit is ripening as it moves from growers to grocery stores. The goal is to help businesses spot potential spoilage and waste less food. Read More
HumanTronik, an AI startup co-founded this year by Icertis co-founder Monish Darda, has acquired tech consultancy CloudMoyo, which Darda helped spin out of Icertis in 2015 with Manish Kedia, who remains CloudMoyo's CEO. The family of the late Samir Bodas, a…
With diesel prices up sharply and digital plants speeding up training, the Redmond, Wash., startup is taking on new crops and new customers for its solar-powered weeding robots. Read More
Loomerang works by handling everything but the art on T-shirts. Artists open storefronts for free, set their own prices, and get 60% of what’s left after manufacturing costs. The company prints, inspects and ships every order. Read More
The Bellevue-based defense tech startup, co-founded by a former Marine special operations officer and two longtime Microsoft engineering leaders, is building AI and simulation software to help military planners anticipate logistics needs. Read More
Satellite communications company Kymeta added a former CIA deputy director to its C-suite; Alaska Airlines named its first chief information technology officer; and Microsoft saw three departure and the return of a former leader. Read More
Seattle startup Endurance Energy put a small power plant on the ocean floor off Oregon and briefly generated more electricity than the system used. The run lasted just 8.7 seconds, but it gives the company a starting point for testing whether undersea…
Reliable Robotics is opening a new engineering hub in Bothell to advance autonomous flight technology, tapping Seattle’s aerospace talent as the California startup raises $115 million and surpasses a $1 billion valuation. Read More
Rosie, founded by two Amazon veterans, sells monthly memberships that families use to book vetted caregivers for childcare and household work. The company says it reached seven-figure annual recurring revenue within eight months of launch. Read More
The company did not disclose the total number of layoffs, but confirmed that the cuts affected employees across multiple departments both in the U.S. and internationally. Read More
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